diff --git a/development/gradle/README b/development/gradle/README
index 3ce5fb3de35..d663bcb5d7c 100644
--- a/development/gradle/README
+++ b/development/gradle/README
@@ -1,33 +1,36 @@
 Gradle is build automation evolved.
 
-Gradle can automate the building, testing, publishing, deployment and
-more of software packages or other types of projects such as generated
-static websites, generated documentation or indeed anything else.
+Gradle can automate the building, testing, publishing, deployment
+and more of software packages or other types of projects such
+as generated static websites, generated documentation or indeed
+anything else.
 
 Gradle combines the power and flexibility of Ant with the dependency
-management and conventions of Maven into a more effective way to build.
+management and conventions of Maven into a more effective way
+to build.
 
-Powered by a Groovy DSL and packed with innovation, Gradle provides a
-declarative way to describe all kinds of builds through sensible defaults.
-Gradle is quickly becoming the build system of choice for many open source
-projects, leading edge enterprises and legacy automation challenges.
+Powered by a Groovy DSL and packed with innovation, Gradle provides
+a declarative way to describe all kinds of builds through sensible
+defaults.  Gradle is quickly becoming the build system of choice
+for many open source projects, leading edge enterprises and legacy
+automation challenges.
 
 Excluding Documentation
 -----------------------
 
-If you would like to exclude the documentation in the generated package,
-you can use the following command when building the package:
+If you would like to exclude the documentation in the generated
+package, you can use the following command when building the package:
 
   # INCLUDE_DOCS=NO ./gradle.Slackbuild
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
-Gradle runs on Java Virtual Machine (JVM). A JVM version between 8 and
-24 is required to execute Gradle.
+Gradle runs on Java Virtual Machine (JVM). A JVM version between
+8 and 24 is required to execute Gradle.
 
-In the link given below, you can find the java version supported by a
-specific gradle release.
+In the link given below, you can find the java version supported
+by a specific gradle release.
 
 I have tested this using zulu-openjdk17.
 
diff --git a/development/gradle/gradle.SlackBuild b/development/gradle/gradle.SlackBuild
index 25ee181512f..80d887c8795 100644
--- a/development/gradle/gradle.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/gradle/gradle.SlackBuild
@@ -27,17 +27,17 @@
 
 # Started by Arun Mascarenhas (arunmascarenhas[at]yahoo[dot]com)
 
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Variables & Environment
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
-PRGNAM=gradle
-VERSION=${VERSION:-8.14.1}
+PRGNAM=${PRGNAM:-gradle}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-9.3.1}
 ARCH=noarch
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
-GRADLE_HOME=/usr/share/gradle
-
 # If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
 # the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
 # could be useful to other scripts.
@@ -52,20 +52,33 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 set -e
 
-rm -rf $PKG
-mkdir -p $TMP $PKG/usr/share/java $PKG/$GRADLE_HOME $OUTPUT $PKG/usr/bin
-cd $TMP
-rm -rf ${PRGNAM}-$VERSION
+WORK=$TMP/work-$PRGNAM
+GRADLE_HOME=/usr/share/gradle
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Initialize & Unpack archive
+echo ">> Initializing and unpacking archive"
+rm -rf $PKG $WORK
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $WORK $OUTPUT
+
+cd $WORK
 unzip $CWD/${PRGNAM}-$VERSION-all.zip
-cd ${PRGNAM}-$VERSION
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Build and prepare package directory
+echo ">> Building source code"
+cd $WORK/${PRGNAM}-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 
-cp -a bin lib init.d $PKG/$GRADLE_HOME/
+PKG_GRADLE_HOME=${PKG%/}/${GRADLE_HOME#/}
+mkdir -p $PKG_GRADLE_HOME
+cp -a bin lib init.d $PKG_GRADLE_HOME/
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/etc/profile.d/
 install -m755 $CWD/$PRGNAM.csh $PKG/etc/profile.d/$PRGNAM.csh
 install -m755 $CWD/$PRGNAM.sh $PKG/etc/profile.d/$PRGNAM.sh
 
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
 cd $PKG/usr/bin
   ln -s $GRADLE_HOME/bin/gradle
 cd -
@@ -84,5 +97,8 @@ cat $CWD/${PRGNAM}.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/${PRGNAM}-$VERSION/${PRGNAM}.SlackB
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Create package
+echo ">> Creating package"
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE
diff --git a/development/gradle/gradle.info b/development/gradle/gradle.info
index d18a2e981e6..96b5cf68d87 100644
--- a/development/gradle/gradle.info
+++ b/development/gradle/gradle.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="gradle"
-VERSION="8.14.1"
+VERSION="9.3.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gradle.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.1-all.zip"
-MD5SUM="b958c33f39156d56ef91dc93ceef24a9"
+DOWNLOAD="https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-all.zip"
+MD5SUM="9047c95e66b2cbb7ef3ae5ee95f3c688"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="%README% zulu-openjdk17"